Over the last few hours, there has been a dramatic pick-up in helicopter and aircraft activity from the base, presumably in support of rescue and medical evacuations.

I was in Kabul today a few hours before the attack in a Blackhawk helicopter with a U.S. Army medical team that was evacuating injured U.S. Army soldiers and Afghan soldiers from forward operating bases, dropping the Afghan injured at the Kabul Medical Center”

The base hospital will no doubt receive injured people from the Mumbai-style attack because it has arguably the best trauma unit in the world, given the injuries they address on a daily basis.

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